BEST BETS Friday 6/22

8pm / Music

Continuing the 21st season of the Baroque Music Festival Corona del Mar will be a program of French and German duo and trio sonatas. The musicians, in this second “Music in the Gardens” program of the week, will include violinist Clayton Haslop, flutist David Shostac, bassoonist Michael O’Donovan and harpsichordist Gabriel Arregui. The Gardens will open at 7:30 p.m. with outdoor brass music.* Baroque Music Festival, Sherman Library & Gardens, 2645 East Coat Highway, Corona del Mar. 8 p.m. $30. (949) 760-7887.

8pm

Pop Music

Take the Sons of the Pioneers’ love of Western imagery, dress it up in Social Distortion’s sonic energy and let “Mistress of the Dark” Elvira handle lead vocals after she’s spent a wild night on the town, and what would you have? Something loosely approximating Tex & the Horseheads, the gothic cowpunk group that was a regular on the Southland club scene in the early ‘80s. It’s been 13 years since the group’s original foursome played together, but that changes tonight at Linda’s Doll Hut in Anaheim, where the group will play the first of several area reunion shows it will give over the next few weeks. Singer Texacala Jones, guitarist Mike Martt, bassist Greg “Smog” Boaz and drummer David “Rock” Lawrence will reconvene from points throughout the Southwest for the shows, of which Martt says, “There are no big expectations. We’re not going to write a new record or change the world. We’re just excited to see each other again--we’ll just play and put on funny hats and see what happens.”* Tex & the Horseheads, Linda’s Doll Hut, 107 S. Adams St., Anaheim. With the Hangmen, Dodge Dart. 8 p.m. $10. (714) 533-1286.

8pm

Theater

“California Scenarios,” a sequence of new short plays produced by South Coast Repertory’s Hispanic Playwrights Project, has its first staging at “California Scenario,” the Costa Mesa landscape garden created by sculptor Isamu Noguchi. Five playwrights--all veterans of South Coast’s annual, 16-year-old incubator, showcase and get-together for Latino dramatists--visited the garden to help inspire the pieces that make up the sequence. Together the playlets trace scenes from the Mexican American experience in California, ranging from the first incursion of Spanish conquerors and curates (Octavio Solis’ poetic shadow-puppet play, “Encarnacion”) to the present time and place: Luis Alfaro’s comical “The Garden of Aztlan” focuses on a tortilla maker at the adjoining El Torito restaurant who flees to the Noguchi garden seeking a greater sense of meaning and belonging.* “California Scenarios,” produced by South Coast Repertory at the Noguchi Garden, Anton Boulevard and Park Center, Costa Mesa. Fridays-Sundays, 8 p.m. Ends July 1. Friday’s performance is sold out. $10. (714) 708-5555 or www.scr.org.